Quote #12

Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.

More from Henry Adams

  1. Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile.
  2. These questions of taste, of feeling, of inheritance, need no settlement. Every one carries his own inch-rule of taste, and amuses himself …
  3. The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies.
  4. Intimates are predestined.
  5. A friend in power is a friend lost.
  6. Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
  7. Friends are born, not made.
  8. At best, the renewal of broken relations is a nervous matter.

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